Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:ErnieMarg




 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was Delete. User's only edit was to create this page, they have never actually contributed to Wikipedia and are unlikely to ever even notice this page is gone, and as has been pointed out, Wikipedia is not a free web host. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:16, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

User:ErnieMarg
Account and user page's only purpose is to solicit help with user's family genealogy research. Suggest delete per WP:NOTWEBHOST. Psychonaut (talk) 16:27, 1 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment - this could have just been handled by blanking the page. It is the users' only edit, and it is from 2008. Weak delete or blank. –xenotalk 16:29, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Blank. If the user reposts, refer the user to Alternative outlets.  We can delete and block if necessary.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:18, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep Over 6,000 editors have short family tree references -- real trees can be 100K long or more . Effort to delete such is disproportionate to any perceived affront to WP. Collect (talk) 12:46, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Collect, what is the source of that statistic? Also, do you consider a user whose only activity on Wikipedia has been to create an account and a user page to be an "editor"? Thank you, –Black Falcon (talk) 23:32, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete (or possibly blank in line with policies and guidelines). The user has only made one edit to Wikipedia... ever. That edit was to their user page. Delete per WP:NOTWEBHOST. If the user had made other edits in the year and a half they have been on Wikipedia, a short biography such as this one might have been acceptable. However, according to WP:UP, "your user page is about you as a Wikipedian", and I don't think this genealogical entry is related to Wikipedia or the user as a Wikipedian. JulieSpaulding 11:52, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOT. As JulieSpaulding notes, this type of entry might have been OK for a user who had made any other edits to Wikipedia; as things stand, however, this appears to be a straightforward case of using Wikipedia as a place to post personal information. –Black Falcon (talk) 23:30, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, do not blank per the fact that the user has no other edits to Wikipedia. There is no reason to host this personal information on Wikipedia, not even in the page history. Wikipedia is not a webhost. Cunard (talk) 07:19, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.